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Dear colleagues, You are cordially invited to attend a three-day*international conference on the_notion of space in 16th and 17th century Europe_*_._ The conference will be held*June 21-23 in Paris*, at the Paris Observatory and Université Paris 7. Please find below the conference program, as well as a PDF of the program. All information can also be accessed by way of the following site: http://www.rehseis.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article1213&lang=fr this conference is part of the project PNEUMA:http://anr-pneuma.fr/ Sincerely, Jonathan Regier (Université Paris 7, SPHERE) Koen Vermeir (SPHERE) *** SPACES, KNOTS AND BONDS : AT THE CROSSROADS BETWEEN EARLY MODERN "MAGIC" and "SCIENCE" ****PROGRAM**THURSDAY, JUNE 21*_Observatory of Paris, salle Cassini, 77 av. de l’Observatoire, Paris 14e RER B : Port-Royal_ 13:30 Welcome Address by Jonathan Regier and Koen Vermeir (Université Paris Diderot, SPHERE) 13:40 Introduction of Projet PNEUMA: Phillipe Hamou (Université Charles de Gaulle Lille III), Laurent Jaffro (Université Paris I) 14:00 – 17:00 Cosmological Space : Metaphysics and Theology Chair : Michela Malpangotto 14:00 Michel Blay (CNRS) De l’espace de Bruno aux enjeux philosophiques de l’infini au XVIIe siècle 15:15 Coffee break 15:45 Brian Copenhaver (UCLA) Vico on God, Space and Air : Not the New Science *FRIDAY, JUNE 22*_Université Paris 7, salle 454A Luc Valentin, 4 rue Elsa Morante, Paris 13e metro line 14 and RER B : Bibliothèque François Mitterrand_ 10:00 – 12:30 Voyages in space Chair : Philippe Hamou Ofer Gal (University of Sydney) Two Bohemian Journeys : Motion in New Spaces at the turn of the 17th century Thibaut Maus de Rolley (Oxford) Le diable en mouvement : conceptions et représentations de l’espace dans le discours démonologique (XVIe-XVIIe siècles) 12:45 – 13:45 Lunch 14:00 – 18:00 How spaces are connected : Space and Causal Schemes Chair : Claire Schwartz 14:00 Roger Ariew (University of South Florida) Leibniz and the Petrifying Virtue of the Place 15:15 Coffee Break 15:30 – 18:00 Luc Peterschmitt (Projet PNEUMA) L’organisation circulatoire de l’espace dans la tradition chimique Hiro Hirai (Radboud University) Celestial Influences and Cosmic Bonds in Renaissance Embryology after Pico *SATURDAY, JUNE 23*_Université Paris Diderot, salle 454A Luc Valentin, 4 rue Elsa Morante, Paris 13e metro line 14 and RER B : Bibliothèque François Mitterrand_ 10:00 – 12:30 Mental Spaces Chair : Roberto Poma Jonathan Regier (Université Paris Diderot, SPHERE) Of Sun, Star and Mind : Geometry as Cause and Knowledge in Keplerian Spaces Delphine Bellis (Ghent University) La perception mentale de l’espace dans les théories de la vision de Kepler et Descartes 12:45 – 13:45 Lunch 14:00 – 18:00 Representing and Structuring Space Chair : Koen Vermeir (Université Paris Diderot/CNRS, SPHERE) 14:00 Vincenzo de Risi (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) The Birth of Space in the Renaissance : from Metaphysics to Geometry 15:15 Coffee Break 15:30 – 18:00 Jean-Marc Besse (CNRS) Schématisations de l’espace et formes de l’écriture géographique au tournant des XVIe et XVIIe siècles en Europe Jean Seidengart (Université Paris 10) La structure de l’espace physique infini dans la cosmologie de Giordano Bruno _Organization_: Jonathan Regier (Université Paris 7, SPHERE) and Koen Vermeir (SPHERE) _Scientific Committee_: Phillipe Hamou (Université Charles de Gaulle Lille III), Laurent Jaffro (Université Paris I), David Rabouin (SPHERE), Michela Malpangotto (SYRTE) _With generous support from_: Projet PNEUMA : l’espace de l’esprit - ANR-09-SSOC-056, SPHERE (CNRS, UMR 7219), SYRTE (CNRS, UMR 8360), et l’Université Blaise Pascal (Clermont-Ferrand)